There are some people who support movements or groups where nothing makes sense. Queers for Palestine, for example, doesn't make a lot of sense considering how Islam tends to feel about LGBT folks in general. It's like Chickens for KFC.
Then there are others that are pretty natural alliances.
For example, gun companies siding with gun rights organizations.
After all, if one side is trying to make it harder for you to sell your products, why would you back them up? Why would you offer support to them? They're not going to decide you're one of the good ones and try to leave you alone, after all. Plus, in a politically-charged landscape, a gun company that sides with gun control groups isn't likely to get many sales at all as no one wants to feed into that.
Still, it seems the Violence Policy Coalition and its Campaign for Gun Industry Accountability are apparently baffled by this.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) held their second annual Gun Owners Advocacy and Leadership Summit (GOALS) on August 9th and 10th in Knoxville, Tennessee. VPC staff traveled to the meeting and attended panels featuring gun industry members and GOA staffers.
In a “it can’t be any clearer” moment of how entwined the gun industry is with pro-gun organizations, on the opening morning of the summit, GOA was presented with a check for $77,375 from Palmetto State Armory (PSA), a gun manufacturer and e-commerce site. PSA’s “core principle” is “Sell as many guns to as many law-abiding Americans as possible.”
Not all of PSA’s customers are “law abiding.” Less than two weeks earlier, [killer's name redacted] reportedly used a Palmetto State Armory PA-15 assault rifle when he allegedly opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building on July 28, 2025, killing four people in an attack that appeared to be targeting the headquarters of the National Football League.
Of course, they also took issue with the Kid Zone that was present at GOALS, because we can't have something for kids to do.
Now, let's look at this quoted bit for a second. They make a thing about how "it can't be any clearer" that the gun industry and gun rights groups are "entwined." They're not wrong. It is pretty clear.
Again, though, why should that surprise anyone?
Groups like the VPC would put Palmetto State Armory out of business if they got their way. While PSA offers a lot of products, most of them are some variation on so-called assault weapons. VPC wants to ban these guns, among others. Of course PSA is going to side with the people who want to allow them to continue selling their products.
And injecting Manhattan is kind of stupid on their part, considering we know the shooter didn't purchase the gun from PSA or a licensed gun dealer. How can you hold PSA responsible, as is implied here, for what someone else did when they bought the gun from a third party in the first place?
They seem genuinely surprised, though, that PSA would have a tight relationship with an organization like Gun Owners of America instead of, say, the Violence Policy Coalition, all while demonizing them in the first place.
It's ridiculous that they seem to think this is a gotcha or something.
They actually emailed this to people. This was a newsletter that I suppose they thought was something earth-shattering. Instead, they're just the kind of people who would make the Three Stooges look like Mensa material.
Editor’s Note: The radical left, which includes groups like the Violence Policy Coalition, will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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